Harvester-reel.



Patented May 20, I902.

0. A. A. RAND. HABVESTEB BEELI (Application filed Jan. 6, 1902.)

(No Model.)

Witnesses.-

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CHARLES A, ANDERSON RAND, onc'nicAeo, ILLINOIS, .ASSIGNOR To DEERINGHARVESTER COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

QH RvE sTER- emn SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Pam No. 700,236, dated May 2o, 1902.

Application filed January fipliillzr, sum No. 88,706. No model.)

To all whom it may concern: I Be it known that I, CHARLES A. ANDERSON RAND, of 18. Fullerton'avenue, in the city of Chicago, county ofrCook, and State of Illinois, 5 have invented certain new and useful Impl'ovements in Harvester-Reels, of which the following is a fulldescription, reference being had to the accompanying drawing. j

My invention relates to improvements in m reels'for harvesting-machines, and has for its object certain improvements in the construction of the said reel whereby it is strengthened and braced and each slat or bar contributes to the support of another or all of the other slats or bars jointly. v

In the construction of reels of the overhung type only a comparatively short shaft is used in order to avoid overhung weight. The reelarms instead of extending therefrom at right angles have been placed upon said shaft so as to extend angularly rearward, thus reaching out and supporting the slatsor bars at a point as near to their ends as possible. However, there still remained on account of the :5 slats being so light, and consequently resilient, a great necessity for an absolute stiffness at the ends. I attain this object by the construction and arrangement illustrated in the accompanying drawing, whiclris a perspec- 0 tive view of a reel provided with my system of braces as viewed from a rear stubbleward position.

A is the reel, provided with my improved brace or stiffening device I v D is the reel-supporting post and frame.. The parts lettered C are the usual reel-arms,

and so on. These braces or stifieners extend across the axis of the reel from one slat to the I V to w hich are attached the slats by a. bolt i t passing th rough, a slot in the said slats for the purpose of adjusting the same endwisefto poj sitiou. y

d is the hracingor'stiffening arm, of which t three are in .this case shown; but'obviouslya V r different number should be used-as, for'in stance, an eight-slat reel would employ four, i

diametrically opposite one, andbe'sidesits attachment at either end byra boltand nntE to said slats'it is secured to the other stifieners or braces at the center of the reel by a bolt and nut F, which passes through all of the braces, and therebyholds them perfectly rigid and firmly. I What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- I 5 5' In a harvester-reel, a shaft having radial arms, reel-faussecured to said arms and ex: tending grainward beyond the said radial arms, a series of stiffening-bars radiating from a common center and wholly independent of 60. v

the said reel-shaft, said stiffening-bars bolted together at their middles and secured to the overreaching grainward ends of the said reelfans, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my 65 name to this specification in the presence of .two subscribing witnesses.

OHARLES A. ANDERSON RAND.

Witnesses:

. 0. W. SMITH,

EDW. BARRETT. 

